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Parks Canada is in talks with Le Boat, Europe's largest self-drive boating company, about bringing a fleet of luxury self-hire boats to the Rideau Canal.
The company's North American operation, based in Clearwater, Florida, said it will be investing $16 million to establish a base of operations in Smiths Falls, with a fleet of 16 Horizon cruisers.

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When I was a kid in the early 1980s, my family’s camping structure of choice was a tent trailer, also called a pop-up camper. For those of us who’ve grown up with the idea that this is a normal thing to haul into the woods – that tent-trailering is a legitimate wilderness experience as an expression […]

Private searchers who are under review for possibly breaking rules when they found HMS Terror say they thought they were doing the right thing, and that Parks Canada never explained the rules in the first place. And the private group now claims there may be “an agenda … focused on discrediting” its searchers and their work. The Arctic […]

The Prime Minister’s Office says private shipwreck searchers didn’t tell the government for more than a week that they had found HMS Terror, the missing ship of the Franklin Expedition. The privately funded Arctic Research Foundation found the 1840s Royal Navy vessel in the Arctic Ocean on Sept. 3. But it did not inform fellow […]

Parks Canada searchers were still scouring Arctic waters for the long-lost HMS Terror more than a week after the wreck was found by their private counterparts. That’s because no one had told them the search was over. What happened to the message depends on whom you ask. The private Arctic Research Foundation, funded by Jim […]

HMS Terror, the second missing ship of the doomed Franklin Expedition, has been found, according to Canadian Arctic explorers — a discovery that could re-write history. The Arctic Research Foundation, funded by Jim Balsillie of Research In Motion, says it found the wreck on the bottom of Victoria Strait in the Western Arctic, although Parks […]

In 1974, a surprising collection was unveiled on the third floor of Laurier House, the storied historical home of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King in Ottawa. It was a small shrine to Lester Bowles Pearson: a replica of the study in his home in Rockcliffe. With a humanity museums often miss, it […]

Parks Canada has decided to provide Wi-Fi at some national parks and historic sites this year, which means we can now look forward to sitting around a campfire while some halfwit babbles on his cellphone.

At a small ceremony Thursday morning at the Brooke Claxton Building in Tunney’s Pasture, Conservative MP Joy Smith unveiled a plaque commemorating Dr. Helen MacMurchy as a person of national historic significance. The honour was arguably deserved.

The arrival of the Château Laurier in 1912 did more than provide Ottawa with its own grand railway hotel. It also influenced the design of several government buildings considered important landmarks today.

A group that’s developing a landscape strategy for the Rideau corridor has warned a large digital screen proposed for an outdoor wall of the newly opened Ottawa Convention Centre could affect the Rideau Canal’s designation as a World Heritage site.

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